What is the Pergamon Museum known for?

What is the Pergamon Museum known for?

The exhibition in the Pergamonmuseum features full-scale reconstructions of architectural monuments from Greek and Roman antiquity. The main attraction is undoubtedly the Pergamon Altar (180–160 BC). Its relief frieze is a masterpiece of Hellenistic art. It depicts the Olympian gods in battle with the Giants.

What does the Pergamon Museum have?

Pergamon Museum, German Pergamonmuseum, art museum in Berlin, Germany, that contains three separate museums: the Collection of Classical Antiquities (Antikensammlung), the Museum of the Ancient Near East (Vorderasiatisches Museum), and the Museum of Islamic Art (Museum für Islamische Kunst).

Is the Pergamon open?

Berlin's Pergamon Museum is being completely renovated for the first time since it opened in 1930, and thus the north wing with the famous Pergamon Altar is closed. Until its reopening in 2024, the multimedia exhibition "Pergamon Museum. The Panorama" will serve as a substitute.

Is the Pergamon Altar closed?

Currently, the Pergamon Museum is home to the Antikensammlung including the famous Pergamon Altar, the Vorderasiatisches Museum and the Museum für Islamische Kunst. Parts of the building are closed for renovation until 2023.

Why is the Pergamon Museum controversial?

Both of these extraordinary artifacts were transported from Turkey, and since its opening in 1930, there has been controversy over the legitimacy of the acquisition of the collection. Many have suggested that the collection be returned to Turkey.

Who designed the Pergamon Museum?

Alfred Messel Ludwig Hoffmann Pergamonmuseum/Architetti The Pergamonmuseum was designed by Alfred Messel; its construction was overseen by Ludwig Hoffmann and lasted twenty years, from 19. A smaller building initially stood on the same site for a just few years before being torn down.

Where was Pergamon located?

Pergamum, Greek Pergamon, ancient Greek city in Mysia, situated 16 miles from the Aegean Sea on a lofty isolated hill on the northern side of the broad valley of the Caicus (modern Bakır) River. The site is occupied by the modern town of Bergama, in the il (province) of İzmir, Turkey.

How do you get into Pergamon Museum?

You can easily reach the Pergamon Museum from the U5 underground station Unter den Linden and from summer 2021 the U5 will stop right in front of Museum Island. But it's also not far to walk from the S-Bahn station at Friedrichstraße and the S-Bahn station at Hackescher Markt is also close by.

When was the Pergamon Museum built?

1909 Pergamonmuseum/Data di apertura

Who made the Pergamon Altar?

King Eumenes II The Pergamon Altar (Ancient Greek: Βωμός τῆς Περγάμου) is a monumental construction built during the reign of the Ancient Greek King Eumenes II in the first half of the 2nd century BC on one of the terraces of the acropolis of Pergamon in Asia Minor.

What makes the Pergamonmuseum so special?

• The impressive reconstructions of massive archaeological structures – the Pergamon Altar, Market Gate of Miletus, the Ishtar Gate and Processional Way from Babylon, and the Mshatta Facade – have made the Pergamonmuseum famous throughout the world, with the result that it is the most visited museum at the Staatliche Museen and in Germany as a whole.

What is the entrance to the pergamonmusesum in Berlin?

• The entrance to the Pergamonmusesum is the James Simon Gallery. You can use the Berlin Welcome Card Museum Island to explore all the museums on Museum Island over three consecutive days. With a Museum Pass Berlin you can visit 37 other museums in Berlin for free.

When was the Pergamon Museum in Munich built?

• It was built from 19 by order of German Emperor Wilhelm II according to plans by Alfred Messel and Ludwig Hoffmann in Stripped Classicism style. Currently, the Pergamon Museum is home to the Antikensammlung including the famous Pergamon Altar, the Vorderasiatisches Museum and the Museum für Islamische Kunst.

What is the Ishtar Gate at the Pergamonmuseum?

• The Vorderasiatisches Museum (Museum of the Ancient Near East) is devoting a scholarly and historical study exhibition at the Pergamonmuseum to one of the Museumsinsel Berlin’s most popular attractions: the Ishtar Gate. From its excavation in Babylon... more